Proverbs 17
1 Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of feasting [with] strife.
pleasant morsel dry and ease in/on/with her from house: home full sacrifice strife
2 A wise servant shall rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part in the inheritance among the brethren.
servant/slave be prudent to rule in/on/with son: child be ashamed and in/on/with midst brother: male-sibling to divide inheritance
3 The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but Jehovah trieth the hearts.
crucible to/for silver: money and furnace to/for gold and to test heart LORD
4 The evil-doer giveth heed to iniquitous lips; the liar giveth ear to a mischievous tongue.
be evil to listen upon lips evil: wickedness deception to listen upon tongue desire
5 Whoso mocketh a poor [man] reproacheth his Maker; he that is glad at calamity shall not be held innocent.
to mock to/for be poor to taunt to make him glad to/for calamity not to clear
6 Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
crown old son: descendant/people son: descendant/people and beauty son: child father their
7 Excellent speech becometh not a vile [man]; how much less do lying lips a noble!
not lovely to/for foolish lip: words remainder also for to/for noble lip: words deception
8 A gift is a precious stone in the eyes of the possessor: whithersoever it turneth it prospereth.
stone favor [the] bribe in/on/with eye master: owning his to(wards) all which to turn be prudent
9 He that covereth transgression seeketh love; but he that bringeth a matter up again separateth very friends.
to cover transgression to seek love and to repeat in/on/with word: thing to separate tame
10 A reproof entereth more deeply into him that hath understanding than a hundred stripes into a fool.
to descend rebuke in/on/with to understand from to smite fool hundred
11 An evil [man] seeketh only rebellion; but a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
surely rebellion to seek bad: evil and messenger cruel to send: depart in/on/with him
12 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man rather than a fool in his folly.
to meet bear childless in/on/with man and not fool in/on/with folly his
13 Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
to return: return distress: evil underneath: instead welfare not (to remove *Q(k)*) distress: evil from house: home his
14 The beginning of contention is [as] when one letteth out water; therefore leave off strife before it become vehement.
to separate water first: beginning strife and to/for face: before to quarrel [the] strife to leave
15 He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the righteous, even they both are abomination to Jehovah.
to justify wicked and be wicked righteous abomination LORD also two their
16 To what purpose is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing [he] hath no sense?
to/for what? this price in/on/with hand fool to/for to buy wisdom and heart nothing
17 The friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
in/on/with all time to love: lover [the] neighbor and brother: male-sibling to/for distress to beget
18 A senseless man striketh hands, becoming surety for his neighbour.
man lacking heart to blow palm to pledge pledge to/for face neighbor his
19 He loveth transgression that loveth a quarrel; he that maketh high his gate seeketh destruction.
to love: lover transgression to love: lover strife to exult entrance his to seek breaking
20 He that hath a perverse heart findeth no good; and he that shifteth about with his tongue falleth into evil.
twisted heart not to find good and to overturn in/on/with tongue his to fall: fall in/on/with distress: harm
21 He that begetteth a fool [doeth it] to his sorrow, and the father of a vile [man] hath no joy.
to beget fool to/for grief to/for him and not to rejoice father foolish
22 A joyful heart promoteth healing; but a broken spirit drieth up the bones.
heart glad be good cure and spirit stricken to wither bone
23 A wicked [man] taketh a gift out of the bosom, to pervert the paths of judgment.
bribe from bosom: secret wicked to take: recieve to/for to stretch way justice
24 Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
with face to understand wisdom and eye fool in/on/with end land: country/planet
25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.
vexation to/for father his son: child fool and bitterness to/for to beget him
26 To punish a righteous [man] is not good, nor to strike nobles because of [their] uprightness.
also to fine to/for righteous not pleasant to/for to smite noble upon uprightness
27 He that hath knowledge spareth his words; and a man of understanding is of a cool spirit.
to withhold word his to know knowledge (precious *Q(K)*) spirit: temper man understanding
28 Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is reckoned wise, [and] he that shutteth his lips, intelligent.
also fool(ish) be quiet wise to devise: think to shutter lips his to understand
